Abstract
Relationships between skin permeability and physicochemical properties of drugs were examined to establish a predictive method for the steady-state permeation rate of drugs through human skin. Human skin permeation properties fell into two categories: one in which the permeability coefficient is correlated to the partition coefficient, revealed with lipophilic drugs; and the other in which the permeability coefficients are almost constant, shown with hydrophilic drugs. The stratum corneum, the main barrier in skin, could be considered as a membrane with two parallel permeation pathways: lipid and pore pathways, and an equation for predicting the steady-state permeation rate of drugs was derived. The skin permeabilities of drugs for man were compared with those for hairless rat. The species difference in skin permeability found was suggested to be due to the difference in skin permeation pathways, since lipid content and water uptake of the stratum corneum varied between human and hairless rat skin.
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